Hamburg - South African cleric Desmond Tutu was on Sunday awarded one of Germany's most prestigious honours, the Marion Doenhoff Prize for International Reconciliation and Understanding.
The retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town has become "a symbol for peace and justice in the world", German Economic Assistance Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said in her laudatio.
The renowned prize was awarded by the influential weekly newspaper Die Zeit together with the Zeit foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, and with the Marion Doenhoff foundation
Doenhoff was a leading German journalist and intellectual who was co-publisher of Die Zeit until her death at the age of 92 in March 2002.
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Tutu, a key figure in the South African fight against apartheid, today speaks around the world for peace and justice. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
On Monday Tutu is due to join former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk in the German capital to take part in an art project for worldwide peace.
The two men are to witness the unveiling of a giant boulder of black granite from South Africa that is intended to symbolise world peace.
The Global Stone Project is the brainchild of German sculptor Wolfgang von Schwarzenfeld, who for the past decade has been collecting two natural stone boulders from each of the world's five continents.
He sculptures, inscribes and polishes a surface on each of them to reflect the sun. One of each pair is transported to Berlin, while the other is displayed in a suitably prominent place in its own country. - Sapa-dpa
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